Chapter 283: Poor Relatives Who Came to the Door
The Xie Mansion in front of him was more atmospheric than Jiang Ning, and the two stone lions placed at the door alone made people stop and dare not move forward.
The dark red wooden pillars at the door were several people tall, and the small servants on both sides were standing quietly aside, looking very orderly.
On the red vermilion lacquer door hangs a bottle of black silk nanmu plaque, on which the dragon flies and the phoenix dance with two big characters, Xie Fu, just looking at the pen can already see the magnificent mind of its owner.
Xie Qingyu knows very little about this Xie Mansion, mostly from others, only knows that the Xie family in front of him is the family of the Xie family, although the Xie family has an ancestral hall in Jiangning, but it is still the people of the family, Xie Tianyang's grandfather went south to do business in the early years, and then made a fortune in Jiangnan, and has never returned.
And Xie Tianyang pays more attention to business, but the Xie family in front of him is different, it is a family of eunuchs, which is more than a few grades higher than the Xie family in Jiangning.
Moreover, in this era, most of them paid attention to the scholars, and they looked down on the merchants.
The little guy at the gate of Xie Mansion saw the two people who stopped, and looked at the two with his eyes from time to time, full of looking eyes.
"Miss, do we really want to live here?" Qianqiu looked at the door of Xie's Mansion and said timidly.
"My grandmother told me a thousand times that day, and now I should live here when I go to the capital, and it is reasonable to say hello to the people of my family, if we don't go, it will be rude, not to mention that my sister has already entered." Saying that, Xie Qingyu pulled Qianqiu, and the two walked towards the gate of Xie Mansion.
"Stop! Is Xie Mansion a place where you can walk in? The two of them had just approached the gate of the Xie Mansion, and before they could speak, they kept looking at their little servant, and then they spoke.
Seeing this, Xie Qingyu took out the letter of worship from his arms, touched a few taels of silver, and handed it to Qianqiu, signaling him to hand it to the little girl.
The little guy got the money, and instantly became frowning and laughing.
"Two girls, wait, the villain will pass it on to you."
Xie Qingyu nodded lightly, fortunately, their family has a big business, and Xie Tianyang gave her a lot of silver on this trip, and the most expensive thing in the capital is silver.
If it weren't for the old lady and her father's thousands of instructions to come to Xie Mansion before, otherwise she would not be happy to spend so much money.
It's just that the little guy who went to report hasn't come back for a long time, and the feet of the two of them are numb, almost just a moment before Xie Qingyu's patience disappeared, a woman in charge came from inside, and when she saw the two of them, she almost raised her head to the sky, and said condescendingly.
"You're Xie Qingyu from Jiangning?"
"Exactly, I was ordered by the old lady to visit my uncle and aunt." Xie Qingyu is colorful.
"Our old lady doesn't have the time to see you, come in with me, my lord is pitiful for you to give you people tiles to cover your body, hey, what kind of cats and dogs have crowded into the Prime Minister's Mansion these years, one came two days ago, and another one came today, really when our Prime Minister's Mansion is a shelter."
The woman in charge looked at the two of them very arrogantly, very disdainful, and muttered incessantly in front of her,
Xie Qingyu wanted to say something, but when the lady in charge said a few words of the Prime Minister's Mansion, she didn't listen to the other words, Xie Tianyang told her to be polite after she went, she thought it was an ordinary official family, who knew that the Xie Mansion here, the people were the prime ministers of the dynasty!
No wonder even the little lady in charge is arrogant, how can people not be proud of their rural buns?
Xie Qingyu and Qianqiu followed the woman in charge, walking all the way, along the cobblestone sheep intestine path all the way to the flowers and willows, but seeing the pavilions and pavilions around, the wild geese swept up in front of them, and the willows along the coast were still clinging, and the willows were hanging down in the blue water to reflect the clear shadow. In the middle of the lake stands a pavilion, and the green tiles are flying. Look again, not far away of the rockery strange stone level, paved with the rich flowers of the red carpet corridor runs through the entire pavilion, the pavilion is almost covered with carved lattice windows, elegant and exquisite.
Everything is almost more refined than the Xie family in Jiangning, I don't know how many times.
"You must have never seen such a luxurious thing in such a small place as Jiangnan." The woman in charge saw that the two of them had never seen the world, and she was even more disdainful in her heart and spoke.
Xie Qingyu didn't answer, but a trace of inexplicable emotion flashed in his eyes, and several people walked forward again.
After a while, when it finally arrived, the beautiful scenery of Fang Cai had long since disappeared, leaving only a broken wall, overgrown with grass as far as the eye could see, and most of the broken walls of the main courtyard had collapsed, and there was no way to live in it.
The woman in charge slammed the door open, and a thick musty smell swept through everyone's noses, and the whole courtyard was coughing for a while.
The woman in charge covered her mouth and nose with a handkerchief, looked at the two and said with disdain.
"The wild girl in the countryside must have been used to it for a long time, and what else is pretending, but don't say anything Our lord doesn't take care of you, this is a single courtyard, although it is in disrepair, you will be able to live in it yourself."
"Can this house be inhabited?" Asaaki couldn't help but complain on the side.
This rotten house can't even compare to the Yulan Garden, which was burned down at the beginning, and the people in the Prime Minister's Mansion are really too deceitful!
"You can't help it, do you really think this is Jiangnan? If you don't want to leave as soon as possible, you will save trouble for our old lady, the concubine is the concubine, and the concubine doesn't say anything, so you have a lot of trouble. When the woman in charge heard Qianqiu's words, she was even more angry in her heart, but she was from the countryside, and she was picky.
"We live, there is Mama Lao." Xie Qingyu heard the words of his daughter-in-law, and he was even more sure of Xie Youran's situation in his heart, but he was afraid that he was not much stronger than himself, if even Xie Youran could live, why would she not be able to, not to mention that this mansion was still the Prime Minister's Mansion!
The lady in charge snorted coldly and left directly.
"Miss, do we really want to live here?" Qianqiu looked at the tatters all over the room and asked hesitantly.
"Stay, why don't you stay? Xie Youran can endure it, why can't you and me? Saying that, Xie raised his hand and cleaned up with Qianqiu, but this house was too old, and as soon as it was cleaned, the dust all over the house was raised.
"Yo, who is this, isn't this our indispensable Jiangnan leader?" At this time, there was a familiar sound of ridicule outside the broken wall, and Xie Qingyu immediately raised his eyes and found that it was the girl next to Xie Youran.
"Who should I be, a wild dog barking." Xie Qingyu raised his eyes and looked at the flowing water, and said very indifferently.
"You!" When Flowing Water heard this, he was choked for a while, and he didn't know how to fight back.
"I haven't seen my sister for a few days, and my sister has become so sharp-tongued." Xie Youran also walked out slowly after the broken wall at this moment, still looking at Xie Qingyu with an indifferent face, but the cruelty in his eyes betrayed her.
Xie Qingyu looked at Xie Youran coldly and did not answer.
"Does my sister like the gift that my sister gave you that day?" Xie Youran thought of the scene of deliberately letting the carriage go the wrong way that day, and the corners of his lips also rose, looking very proud.
"Why didn't you come early, it's not the same as we live." Before Xie Qingyu could say anything, Qianqiu beside him had already spoken.
Xie Youran's face instantly turned blue and white, and he couldn't say a word of refutation for a long time, and then turned around and left directly.
The reason why Xie Youran couldn't refute it was naturally because what Qianqiu said was the truth, she lived on the other side of the broken wall, the proud daughter of the sky in the south of the Yangtze River, and after arriving in the capital, she became a beggar, only covered by tiles.
"Qianqiu, your skills are rising." Xie Qingyu watched Xie Youran leave with hatred, and chatted with Qianqiu.
"Miss." Qianqiu seemed to be very embarrassed, whispered a few words, and then cleaned up.
By the time the two of them had almost cleaned up, it was already afternoon, and before they had time to rest, the woman in charge came again.
"You, our eldest lady wants to see you, come with me, by the way, there are you, go and tell your young lady, hurry up and follow me." The woman in charge originally came to Xie Qingyu's broken courtyard first, and just happened to see the flowing water in front of the broken wall, and said loudly.
Then the few people hurriedly cleaned up, and followed the woman in charge to the front yard.
Xie Qingyu didn't know who the eldest lady of the Xie family was, but he just followed and brought the gifts that Xie Tianyang had prepared for the masters of the Xie family before, Xie Tianyang had also left the capital for many years, and he didn't know much about the specific situation, and most of the situations needed to be explored by Xie Qingyu and Xie Youran themselves.
After a few people shuttled through a few corridors, they finally arrived at a pavilion that looked very luxurious, on which they were all made of yellow-green glazed tiles, and the afterglow under the sunset was to coat the roof with a different kind of brilliance, and the layers of flowing water surrounded the entire pavilion, and only a smaller stone bridge could be passed.
The woman in charge walked in the front, and Xie Qingyu and Xie Youran walked behind.
After entering the pavilion, a few people found that there was a person sitting on the soft couch in the middle of the pavilion, and at this moment she was lowering her head and playing with the bright red Kodan in her hands, although she had not raised her head, but the two of them already knew the temperament of this young lady.
"Miss, the two girls from Jiangnan have been brought." The woman in charge said slowly to the person above the throne very respectfully.
"Got it, you step back first." The woman's voice was very slender and soft, but she didn't look up at the two of them for a long time after she finished speaking, Xie Qingyu and Xie Youran just stood in place like that.
It seemed that a century had passed, and the eldest lady raised her hair and spoke.
"Which of you two is the leader of Jiangnan?"
Xie Yunjin, the eldest lady of the Xie family, has a face like a hibiscus, eyebrows like willow tips, fingers like peeling onion roots, a mouth like Zhu Dan, a smile touching the soul, she is wearing a crimson makeup gourd double happiness pattern pipa cardigan, mopping the floor of the smoky jacquard moon skirt, it is really graceful.
Xie Qingyu originally thought that there were enough beauties he had seen in Jiangnan before, but compared with the current Xie family's eldest lady Xie Yunjin, others didn't seem to be enough to see, even Xie Youran was a little inferior, and I don't know if it was because of his age, Xie Yunjin's gestures were a little more amorous.
Xie Yunjin didn't hear anyone answer for a long time, and her beautiful eyes also became sharp.